Five self-confessed members of the pro-Japanese terrorist gang named "Huang Tao Hui", or "Yellow Way Society," received death and prison terms at the First Special District Court yesterday.
During the past trials, all the accused implicated Zang Nyoh-tsing, 315-pound ex-convict and present garrison commander of the Shangha! Nanking ani—Shanghai-Hangchow areas, as the leader Who directed the terrorist activities from headquarters in the New Asia Hotel in Hongkew. The men were also alleged to have used cars bearing Special Defence Force licence plates for transportation between Hongkew and 86 Jessfield Road, Special Service Section of ihe Japanese military.
The death sentence was passed on San Lien-hsiang, 29-year old native of northern Kiangsu, who confessed having accompanied two others to the Y.M.C.A. Social Centre at Robison Road on July 17, when one Dai Yoong, a brass smith, was shot dead. The accused denied having fired the shots.
The pistol, said to have been carried by the accused, was seized at 82 Tung Yih Li, off Ferry Road, where it had been hidden in a toft. It has been identified by arms experts to be one of the 27 pistols sold by the Police in March to the Japanese Army Special Service Section.
Two Chinese women, charged with iMegally transporting firearms for the accused and two "others not yet in custody, were sentenced to two months' imprisonment, suspended for two years.
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